The Song of Styrene
1958 [FRENCH]
Action / Animation / Documentary

Plot summary
Le chant du Styrène is a 1958 French documentary film directed by Alain Resnais. The film was an order by French industrial group Pechiney to highlight the merits of plastics.
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Neither poetic nor aesthetic really
"Le chant du Styrène" is a French documentary film from 1959, which means this one will have its 60th anniversary soon. The director is the famous Alain Resnais and the commentary was written by the not-so-famous Raymond Queneau. According to IMDb, it runs for 19 minutes, but all the versions I found only go for 13 minutes. That is actually really enough as all this film shows us are the work procedures at a large polystyrene factory. I have no idea why this was called poetic or aesthetic here on IMDb, because it is neither. I can't imagine people are really interested in this unless they work at such a factory themselves, which means this film is really only for a very small target group. In the film's favor, you have to say that color is nothing to be taken for granted for a film from the late 1950s and it definitely would have been an even more boring watch as a black-and-white film. The animation factor is negligible. As is the film as a whole, I do not recommend the watch. Thumbs down.